[K12OSN] Oregon TESA - Weird problems with TESA Session

[Eric Harrison]

Quentin Hartman wrote:
> Colleagues (especially those in Oregon)-
>
> I have just become aware of a problem using the TESA testing session this
> year. During reading tests particularly (Math tests seem to be
> unaffected), the portion of the page that contains the answers will
> disappear after a seemingly random number of questions. One can hit the
> "P" in the corner to make the answers available again in a floating box,
> but they cannot be answered there. Are any of you seeing this behavior and
> discovered a fix? I am running a fully updated 4.4.1 server. Also, only
> schools that are using terminal servers to test have begun testing, so I
> do not yet know if this affects other platforms or the "official" secure
> browser.
>
>


I have not heard of this specific problem. But over the last couple of
days we have been hacking on "alternate" TESA support.

Once of the more promising approaches we are working on is to "port" the
Vanguard chrome to the latest versions of Firefox and Mozilla. We have
pretty much everything working but the automatic full-screen mode.

Anyone know how to get Firefox to startup in full screen mode? (i.e.
pressing F11).

Here is quick HOWTO. This will create a "shared" installed of a TESA
browser that does not require per-user configuration. This example uses
firefox behind the scenes, but with slight modification it can use
Mozilla or Netscape. I'll script this all when it is done...


1) download and install the official TESA Vantage "secure" browser for
one user.

2) mkdir /etc/tesa

3) cd ~/.phoenix/vanguard/*.slt/

4) cp vanguard.* /etc/tesa/

5) cd ~/vanguard/chrome

6) cp vanguard.jar xptk.jar jslib.jar /usr/lib/firefox-*/chrome/

8) append this to /usr/lib/firefox-*/chrome/installed-chrome.txt

	content,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/jslib.jar!//
	content,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/xptk.jar!//
	content,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/vanguard.jar!//


9) create a script to start firefox with the TESA chrome. Here is a
rough example:

#!/bin/bash
firefox -CreateProfile vanguard;
cp -f /etc/tesa/vanguard.* ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.vanguard/
firefox -P vanguard -chrome chrome://vanguard/content/ &





-Eric
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